A journalist locked up without trial is a challenge for us all

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In a letter from his cell, in Egypt’s notorious Tora Prison, the award-winning
al-Jazeera correspondent Peter Greste wrote that journalists were “never
supposed to become the story”.

He is one of the most dedicated journalists I know, but in this instance he is
wrong. When our colleagues are seized and held without trial it is one of
the most important stories we can tell.

Greste was arrested on December 29 alongside the network’s Egyptian producers
Mohamed Fahmy and Baher Mohamed. They were accused of collaborating with the
Muslim Brotherhood to defame and destabilise Egypt. Fahmy and Baher were
accused of